Sonnets to a gardener

this is a poem written by Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido/Philippine Contemporary Literature in English Book
4th term - 2008-2009
Humanities 16 - Professor Palmea, Beaulah U.
I like this poem very much that i kept on reading it and continue finding different meanings...
here it is..

Sonnets to a gardener

by Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido

Cool is the night. There is a tender breeze

stirring the vine-leaves curtaining my room.

is it the amorous secrets of the trees,

is it my name, it murmurs through the gloom?

The altar-fires gleam fearful in the dusk,

But stars allure me with their lustrous glow.

Fragrance of lilies, rose-released musk...

Such wonders can not last, and i must go.

Yonder he waits, O whisp'rer of my name,

Tarry a little while! I come, my Love.

I come, forsaking prayer and altar-flames,

To burn for you my incense in this grove.

Night, call me not a soulless infied ...

Only a pagan, worshipping love too well.